AVENGERS ANNUALS AND COMICBOOKS

Continuing with delve into my Avengers collection I now come to my set of Avengers annuals and the couple of comics I own.

The first Avengers annual appeared in 1967 and was published by Atlas.

It features John Steed and Emma Peel, and just like most annuals, its full of strips, text stories and behind the scenes features on the series.

The second annual from 1968 features John Steed and Tara King and is similar to the previous annual.

My particular annual is quite special as I got it signed by Linda Thorson aka Tara King at one of the Cult TV conventions.

And below is the final annual  from 1969, the year the original Avengers finished. Again, very similar in content.

Below is the American Gold Key comic that appeared in 1968. It's called John Steed Emma Peel so as not to be confused with Marvel's Avengers comic strip superheroes.

The comic features two colourised and reformatted stories from TV comic -  The Roman Invasion and the Mirage Maker.

In 1990 Eclipse Books published a three-part comic book series in the USA called Steed and Mrs Peel, presumably for the same reason Gold Key used John Steed Emma Peel.

The writing credits for the first part is Grant Morrison, while the second and third instalments are credited to both Grant Morrison and Anne Caulfield. The art is by Ian Gibson.

Tara King does make an appearance too.